Tokyo's Biggest Tech Party Ever: December 17, 2009
More than 15 international communities will becoming together in mid December for Tokyo's Biggest Tech Party Ever. 300 people are expected to gather in Roppongi, but I bet the number grows higher than that. I know a pile of OpenSolaris guys will be going, and I`ll go for sure. I can imagine that thousands of photographs and videos will emerge from this gig. More details soon.

Toshiba Ships OpenSolaris on the Mini
Toshiba now ships OpenSolaris on the mini NB200 (Intel Atom), which goes right along with OpenSolaris on the Portégé R600 and the Tecra M10. I have the M10. I hope to get light and thin with the mini soon (it's less than 3 pounds and under an

Red and Black Shibuya Jam
Found these two guys the other nite in Shibuya ...

BarCamp Yokohama: Fall 2009 Photos
Multiple international communities came together for another BarCamp here in Japan last weekend, this time at the Yokohama International School about a half hour south of Tokyo. Back in May we organized a BarCamp in Tokyo, and I think we`ll do more of these events after this Yokohama effort. This BarCamp model for conference organizing is very interesting and extremely efficient because it`s such a flat structure and distributes tasks widely: everyone organizes, everyone participates. Some OpenSolaris guys were there, and we gav

O`Reilly Make Tokyo: Fall 2009 Photos
Monday was a holiday here in Japan so I went to the O`Reilly Make Conference and saw some of my Tokyo Hackerspace friends there -- among thousands of other Japanese Makers. Really good time.